Bollywood director Rohit Shetty is to classy movies what Donald Trump is to Muslims or ancient Spartans to peace. You get the point, don’t you? Shetty belongs to the new breed of sub-mental Indian film-makers whose movies are a witch’s brew of ear-splitting noise, mindless violence and sophomoric story topped off by a dung-heap of […]

Steve is so hugely successful and yet he treated so many people so badly. How much of an Asshole do you have to be to be successful? – Daniel Kottke (Steve’s friend and Apple technician who accompanied him to India), quoted in the new documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine As Executive Producer […]

Dominika…reached out and put her hand in the president’s lap…With practiced feel, Dominika estimated smaller-than-average dimensions… – Palace of Treason, P.420-422 Ever since I came under the relentless scrutiny of the G-Men, my long-standing interest in spy thrillers (both books and movies) has heightened. So it should hardly surprise you that I picked up ex-CIA […]

“You can smell an Indian before you see or hear him” is a truism as old as the Himalayas. Just the other day, I stumbled upon a furphy that Alexander the Great hurriedly scampered out of India after crushing the local king Porus not because his soldiers mutinied; au contraire, it seems the Emperor found […]

Your infinite fascination for all things Apple matches mine. Alas, your time is finite. So which Apple blog should you spend more time on for the latest news, reviews and how-tos of Macs, iPhones and iPads. To gauge the popularity of the major Apple blogs, I took a dekko at Alexa rankings (not perfect but […]

Forgery, favoritism and corruption have enabled Telugus and Tamils (the South Indians referred to in the book) to dominate and ruin the U.S. IT jobs market, according to a new e-book published on Amazon. If the broken U.S. IT job market has to be fixed, the monopoly of Telugus and Tamils over these jobs must […]